Shenyin Shanhaijing

Chapter 58 Hualin Street

On the morning of Friday, December 12, Lu Cheng asked for leave and did not go to work, so he flew to Guangzhou by himself.

This time, mother Rao Yuqiu did not follow.Jiang Qiuyun didn't go either, saying she had to go to class and thought it was too far away.

When Lu Cheng got off the plane and found the hotel he reserved, it was only 2 pm.

Manager Li Hong had already arrived first, helped him complete the game procedures, and got the number plate, game clothes and timing chip.

Li Hong looks very young, about 26 years old, with a round face and short hair, 1.6 meters tall, of medium build, wearing casual shirts, jeans, and light makeup on her face.

Lu Cheng saw that she had another number plate in her hand, so he asked, "Is there another signed athlete?"

Li Hong nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, I will also participate in tomorrow's competition, named 'Hu Qikun'!"

Lu Cheng stared: "Ah? It's that bastard!"

Li Hong was taken aback: "What? You know him?"

"This man is unreasonable."

"Ms. Huang has signed him for more than two years! Why is it so unreasonable? Tell me, when did he provoke you?"

"When I was participating in the Hangzhou Horse Race, someone tripped me; when I was participating in the Xiamen Horse Race, I was hit by someone, but I was fine, and the other person fell down. Now I suspect that that person was hired by Hu Qikun!"

"Do you have any proof?"

"The Xiamen police may have evidence. It seems that the person took over the matter and did not tell Hu Qikun, otherwise he should be suspended."

"It's fine if there's no evidence. You weren't hurt anyway."

"Hehe, I'm in a good mood, so I don't bother to talk to him."

Lu Cheng looked out the window and said, "It's still early, I want to go out for a walk, Sister Li, do you want to go together?"

Li Hong smiled and said, "Okay, where are you going? Anyway, I'm fine, so I'm here to serve you. Hu Qikun is in your favor. If he was the only one to compete, I wouldn't come to Guangzhou."

She helped Lu Cheng negotiate the first endorsement deal of 300 million yuan. "Oriental Sports Agency Co., Ltd." takes 7%, which is 21 yuan.

In addition to the guaranteed basic salary, she and Huang Guangjing can also get a certain amount of commission.

She gets 15% of the company's revenue for every business deal she makes. 21% of 15 yuan, or just over 3 yuan.This is income before taxes.

For Li Hong, this was the first income he got from Lu Cheng.If she can talk about Anta's business, her results will be more objective.

The premise of all this is that there must be excellent athletes, and it is her blessing to sign Lu Cheng.

She also wanted to urge Lu Cheng to let him run with good results in a row, and even if he couldn't win the Guangzhou Marathon Championship, he still had to strive for the top three.

Because of this, she came to Guangzhou in person and followed Lu Cheng as much as possible, so as not to let him go out to spend time and drink alone when he was young and unselfish, or because of various accidents, he could not participate in the competition in time.It's only 2 o'clock in the afternoon, so it would be too boring to stay in the hotel for a rest!Since Lu Cheng wanted to go out, she dutifully followed.

The two took a taxi from the hotel entrance.

Lu Cheng told the driver: "Go to Hualin Yuqi Street".

Hualin Jade Street, starting from Xilaizheng Street on Xiajiu Road in the south and Xinsheng Street on Changshou West Road in the north, stretches for more than 500 meters. It is the largest jade trading place and jade distribution center in Guangzhou.

After getting out of the car, Li Hong smiled and asked, "Do you want to buy a bracelet or a ring? For whom? Girlfriend or mother?"

Lu Cheng smiled and said, "Just take a look, you don't necessarily have to buy it."

He wanted to use the jade slips as the rune carrier, but he didn't know how much jade to use, let alone which kind of jade was suitable, so he wanted to see more since he came here.

Although Guangzhou is not the largest jade distribution center in China, it is much better than cities like Xiamen, Quancheng, and Hangzhou.

On Hualin Jade Street, there are hundreds of jade shops on both sides of the street, with thousands of jade and jewelry stalls inside. Among them, the Hualin Jade Building is the largest, with nearly 400 stalls.There are also more than 200 temporary stalls in the street, mainly concentrated in Hualin New Street and the green corridor in front of Hualin Temple.These outdoor jade stalls are located on the same street as the jade shops on both sides, complementing each other and forming the unique market style of Guangzhou.

Lu Cheng walked and looked all the way, mainly to see if there were rough stones in the store, not to see the finished products.

He didn't even bother to look at the material, because the price/performance ratio was too low.

He walked into a stone gambling shop and found that there were a lot of gambling stones in the shop, as well as a pile of small materials the size of a fist.

Without saying a word, he touched the larger rough stones one by one.

As he studied "Great Witch Chanting", his perception of jade has improved a lot. As long as he stretches out a finger and touches the original stone, he will have a strange feeling.If there is good jadeite, the feeling is stronger; if it is poor jadeite, the feeling is very weak.

The materials in this shop are very poor. After touching a hundred or so rough stones, he only felt a little bit about two, which is incomparable to the time in Hangzhou.It seems that the owner of the stone gambling shop in Hangzhou is not just talking about it, maybe he really married a Burmese woman, saved the country with curves, and got better quality jade.

Lu Cheng picked up a rough stone weighing five or six kilograms, and asked the shopkeeper, "How do you sell it?"

The shop owner replied: "One kilogram is thirteen thousand."

Lu Cheng dropped the stone, turned around and walked out.

Not far away, he entered another stone gambling shop.This house has even fewer rough stones, only more than 50 pieces in total, but they are all very big, the smallest one is more than [-] kilograms, and the largest one weighs two and a half tons!

Li Hong followed behind him, seeing him groping again, persuaded him: "You like to play this? I heard that betting on stones is very risky. You can be poor with one knife, rich with one knife, and sell tofu with one knife!"

She thinks Lu Cheng is interesting, he is different from ordinary young people.

If you are an ordinary college student, you go shopping, go to the cinema, walk on the road with your girlfriend, some people go to bars, disco, ballroom dancing.

Some college students like to gamble on stones, but few people pay attention to large rough stones.

She knew that Lu Cheng had just received a signing bonus, and he had won a lot of money in the first two marathons, and she was afraid that he would use all his funds to gamble on stones.There is nothing wrong with betting on stones in itself, but what I am afraid of is that if I lose the bet, I will lose my psychological balance.

So she couldn't help but advise: "Buy a small stone and play with it."

It took Lu Cheng a few minutes to touch more than 50 stones, picked out a 70 kg rough stone, and asked the shop owner, "How do you sell it?"

The boss is a middle-aged woman with a plump figure and a dark complexion. She glanced at it and replied, "160 million."

Lu Cheng said, "So expensive? Much more expensive than the one next door!"

The woman sneered: "There are all brick materials over there, and the whole truck is pulled over. I carefully selected the good materials from the Longken mining area, and the purchase price is too different!"

Lu Cheng said: "This stone doesn't show much, the skin is black, and there is no attractive place. There is a big crack here..."

"Why didn't you show it? You can't see it with the naked eye, you need to use a strong light to look carefully." Seeing that Lu Cheng didn't even have a flashlight, she felt that he was a mallet, and he was too young to spend a lot of money to buy rough stones.

Lu Cheng said, "I can only pay 100 million."

"No, I won't sell it for less than 150 million! These days, good jadeite is getting scarcer, and good rough stones are also getting scarcer!"

"Cheaper, 150 million is too expensive."

Seeing that he was determined to buy, Li Hong didn't want to persuade him too much, so he helped bargain.

The female boss refused to lower the price too much.

In the end, Lu Cheng spent 145 million to buy the original stone.

(End of this chapter)